(UPDATED) An Update on Cartoon Network's Young Justice

Nolan North kisses pregnant Danica McKellar and I don't mean their respective characters, Superboy and Miss Martian. Lucky bastard. Plus an update on future cameos and when the show will return to the airwaves.

And as for when Young Justice will return? Here's what show creator, Greg Weisman [also creator of Gargoyles] has to say:

Good news and bad news today...

Here's the good news.

Coming out of Cartoon Network's upfronts last week (and Geoff John's comments on it since) there's been some confusion about what's happening on the Young Justice front.

What amuses me a bit is how CONFIDENT some posters on various message boards are about their interpretation of the reports. CONFIDENT and generally wrong.

So here's what's going on:

Young Justice has aired nine episodes of our 26-episode first season. The rest will begin airing after some weeks of reruns. The schedule is Cartoon Network's, and I'm not yet 100% clear on when we're back up and running. Though to be fair to CN, we don't have ANY other episodes in the can as of this moment. We're posting episodes 10 and 11 now.

(I saw some folks protesting why we didn't wait until ALL episodes were in the can before we began airing. All I can do is shrug. It's not up to me, but I do wonder how the fans who were furious that they had to wait until January 2011 for Season One would feel about THAT strategy.)

So the good news: We HAVE INDEED been picked up for a second season. As of now, all CN & WB have ordered is a ten episode mini-series, "YOUNG JUSTICE: INVASION". We're HOPING for more than just ten eps, and I honestly think the odds are fairly good that the order will expand, but as of NOW, all we have is this ten episode order.

We immediately began work on this new season last week, and are breaking approximately (but not quite) one episode per day. The creative team is fundamentally the same as for Season One.

And though, of course, we will be introducing many new characters episodically in Season Two (just as we do episodically in Season One), I don't want to give the impression that this is some spin-off featuring, I dunno, the League or something, in the same Earth-16 setting. Invasion IS the second season of Young Justice and absolutely features our "Team". Episode 26 of Season One is time-stamped "December 31". Episode 1 of Season Two will be time-stamped "January 1", in essence picking up right where we left off.

We anticipate YJ:Invasion premiering in 2012... late first quarter, if I had to guess. Reports suggesting late 2011 are... beyond wishful thinking.

Hmmm... anything else? I feel like I'm forgetting something. But I can't think of any other misconceptions that need correcting right now.

Oh, well...

Still - Season Two. Not too shabby, huh?

UPDATE: CBMer @tazmaniak brought to my attention that their are more updates from creator Greg Weisman. Show him some love in the comments section!

As before, we don't have an official pick-up on the back ten episodes of Season Two, but we've been given the go ahead to break the stories:
211-212 - Beat Outlines completed.
213 - We're in the middle of breaking this one on index cards.

Cartoon Network has also released an update stating new Young Justice episodes are slated to air Fall 2011, beginning with the tenth episode "Target." {Which has already leaked online}

Young Justice is an American animated television series created by Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti for Cartoon Network. Despite its title, it is not an adaptation of Todd Dezago and Todd Nauck's Young Justice comic series, but rather an adaptation of the entire DC Universe with a focus on young superheroes. The series follows the lives of teenaged heroes and sidekicks who are members of a fictional covert operation team called Young Justice. The team is essentially a young counterpart to the celebrity-level famous adult team, the Justice League. The main setting is the fictional universe of Earth-16, during a time period in which superheroes are a relatively recent phenomenon. The series debuted on January 7, 2011 with a two week reairing of the first two episodes, which originally aired as an hour long special on November 26, 2010. Young Justice premiered on September 9, 2011 on Teletoon, in Canada.

Young Justice has been renewed for a second season entitled Young Justice: Invasion. It is set to premiere in the first quarter of 2012.

@Spidey91: Nope, Season 2, titled YOUNG JUSTICE: INVASION will start in 2012. Season 1 has only aired 10 of 26 episodes which will resume at some point this year after reruns. Greg doesn't know exactly when.

That update you posted from Greg at the end is pretty old.It mentions Cartoon Network's Upfront being the previous week.That was way back in March.

Here's a more recent update from 10 days ago.

http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?rid=901

They've aired episodes 1-9, completed episodes 10-18 and episodes 19-21 are in post production and should be finished soon.

And according to Cartoon Network, the series will return when the network's fall season starts.

http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=1091

That's generally the second or third week of September.Greg also said he thinks it will return sometime in September.

If you look at the schedule, you'll see episode 8, Downtime, is airing September 2nd.I'll assume episode 9 will air the following week, so maybe episode 10, Targets will air the week after that on the 16th.

If there is an unfunny translation of that Hitler rant, I sure haven't seen it. That "Hello Megan" thing does wear out its welcome mighty quick!

I am glad to hear that we will finally be getting new episodes of Young Justice soon. It's freaking ridiculous having to wait so long for new ones. And what of those last few episodes of Brave and the Bold?

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